It sort of looks like a rolly poly but it is darker grey and the shell is less flat. I picked this guy right off of a leaf and noticed many more all around.

Can you describe the damage? For example holes all over the leaves, chunks eaten out of the edge of the leaves or stems chewed through.

Jim

Holes all over the leaves. Entire leaves gone, leaving just the stems. Hoping this isn't multiple bugs...

I went out again and found some slugs. I have some slug traps out (put out this afternoon). Here are some pictures of the beans. There isn't anything left of my cabbage to take pictures of unfortunately.

The big holes, sometimes at the edged, sometimes not, as well as partial skeletonization, looks to me like slug dammage.

Roly polys, potato bugs, pill bugs, sow bugs or whatever they are, do not cause that kind of damage that I know of. In fact, sow bugs, if that's what they are, do not attack living plants at all.

Jim

Thanks, I think you are right. Will be kind of tough to rid myself of these, my beds are made primarily of leaves, compost, and seaweed. The traps got a bunch last night, I'll try some more tactics and see if I can knock down the population.

Sluggo is a safe and effective product.

Shallow dishes of beer are said to work also.

Jim

Here is a link that might be useful: Sluggo

That is a pill bug by the way and I agree they did not due that damage .

Got some slug control. *crosses fingers*

TIA, you took a pic of the little devils! See the tiny slugs in your second picture's upper left-hand corner. Slugs can decimate your beans in no time. It's good to get them under control from the get-go.

Beer is a good bait but expensive. Here's a homemade bait, just as effective as beer, but much, much cheaper to use:

WATER - wheat FLOUR - and - YEAST slurry.

First make a slurry of flour and cold water. Stirr in one or two teaspoons yeast. Cover, set aside either in fridge (slow ferment) or on counter (fast ferment) for a day or so, or use some for bait immediately, and store rest in fridge.

Wheat flour contains gluten, which together with water and yeast, ferments (the yeasts eat the gluten).

Option: Keep a big batch in the fridge (in container with lid), stir before use. When dormant (the yeasts ate all the gluten), reactivate with water and flour. No more yeast is needed. Keep refrigerated.

Keep your starter (that's what it's called when used for bread-making) active by adding water and flour occasionally. After the initial addition of yeast, no more yeast is needed, just add water and wheat flour.

When you need more bait, stir the starter well, add water and flour, remove the amount you need for bait, and put the rest back in the fridge in a covered container. Everything must be clean to prevent bad bacteria from infecting your starter.

Slugs apparently go mad with delight when they smell this delicious fermenting concoction.

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However, for the person, who has to empty the containers full of decaying slugs, it is no delight. Gross! Please don't have kids do this chore!

Cheap styrofoam cups, quarter-full of bait slurry, sunk into the ground, work ok.

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Re: Monterey Sluggo:

The active ingredient in Monterey Sluggo is Iron phosphate, a mined product, and the inert is wheat gluten. Monterey Sluggo is approved for organic gardening, and it is OMRI Listed, according to the manufacturer.

BTW, as a transplanted Northerner, I always thought that sow bugs/rolly polies didn't cause such damage. But in some Southern gardens, they are TERRIBLE! I've had them eat entire plants, and that, over night.

George
Tahlequah, OK (where, fortunately, they haven't been a problem)

Wood lice *will* eat young, tender plants. Especially when there are huge numbers of them. That mulch you have is perfect habitat for them. Some unfortunate people cannot mulch their gardens since it invites a plague of these things. A problem in parts of the PNW where I live.

Here's a good thread on which deals with sow bugs.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ruth Stout gardening/ OK gardening forum